Hi,
It's easy to create a sphere from a circle and a clone with circular transparency.
But how does one draw a cocoon (stretched sphere), like the (rather poor) example in attached gif?
Stephan
Hi,
It's easy to create a sphere from a circle and a clone with circular transparency.
But how does one draw a cocoon (stretched sphere), like the (rather poor) example in attached gif?
Stephan
Hi,
Welkom terug/Welcome back
Create a circle
clone the cirle move it a little to the right
select both circles and add shapes
select with the shape editor tool(f4)the three right handles/nodes
and move them to the right(hold down ctrl)
(you could use the rectangle tool with rounded corners also)
Hope it helps,Hans
Last edited by haakoo; 30 September 2007 at 12:51 PM.
Welcome to the Xara Gallery Conference Stephan
Here are a few ways. There are many more and I am sure others will share their methods.
Gary
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Or...
Create a capsule shape.
Duplicate and apply an Inner Contour with the Contour Tool.
Press the Inset Path icon - This makes a single new object
Apply Linear transparency to the white shape.
Gary
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I just use a blend between 2 lines.
I try as much as possible not to blend between (complex) shapes, because the blend often doesn't turn out right![]()
Or is this the kind of cocoon you're after?
Egg
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Hi Egg,
Nice one
Since your the flash man;Can you make it pop and fly away like a butterfly![]()
Hans
Well gentlemen,
I must say that have been very quick with your assistance.
I had found a Xara Xone workbook exercise about Gel buttons, which is pretty much the same method as Gary's 2nd posting in red. But I wasn't too pleased with the end result. Particularly as the cocoon has to co-exist with the purplish spheres I had already created.
I think I'll play around a bit with Gary's green and the Alien's blue methods.
Thanks very much folks,
Stephan
Last edited by StephanP; 30 September 2007 at 04:37 PM. Reason: typos
Alien
That's a brilliant solution! Why didn't I think of that?
Gary
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Hehe, I've learned this technique a long time ago from the Shading a bent tube thread at the tips & tricks board![]()
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